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Love Test Scores by Marital Status (3/10/96)

Respondents who took the experience version of the Love Test were asked "Are you married to this person?". Below are means and standard deviations for The Love Test scales by marital status. Married and nonmarried respondents Concept of Love scores were very similar, however nonmarried respondents scored higher on their experience of passion and intimacy as compared to married respondents. Married and nonmarried respondents experience of commitment scores were also very similar.

Not Married


 Mean    Std Dev      N  
                         Concept
74.52      10.76    464  Passion
89.68       7.50    464  Intimacy
78.07      11.99    464  Commitment

                         Experience
76.07      14.56    728  Passion
81.74      15.70    728  Intimacy
75.40      17.74    728  Commitment

Married

 Mean    Std Dev      N  
                         Concept
72.12      10.46     90  Passion
88.14       7.60     90  Intimacy
76.24      13.41     90  Commitment

                         Experience
65.36      19.24    149  Passion
76.87      19.05    149  Intimacy
74.34      18.17    149  Commitment

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